CommodityPoint in Prague

Gary M. Vasey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:21:08 +0000

Last week, David Steele (President of UtiliPoint International, Inc.), Patrick Reames (MD, CommodityPoint, Americas), Mark Tredway (Director of Business Development, CommodityPoint) and myself spent a couple of days in Prague doing some business. The weather, although cold, was actually quite nice and we did manage to get some sight seeing in too ably directed by John Mohr (CEO, CFO2GO – our local accounting firm). Here are a few pictures of Prague and ourselves ….

Reames, Steele, Vasey and Tredway by the Prague Astrological Clock

Admiring the Charles Bridge and Prague Castle

Prague Castle and Seat of Government

View of Prague from Clock Tower

All photos courtesy of Patrick Reames.

Energy Risk – Prague

Gary M. Vasey — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:17:56 +0000

I attended, spoke at and moderated a panel at the Energy Risk conference in Prague on Central & Eastern Europe last week. The event was very well attended and there was some very good discussion around risk management and the CEE region – which recently has been a center of industry attention.

For me the speakers dinner was the most rewarding as I had a very illuminating conversation with David Kucera, CEO of the Prague Power Exchange about their progress in establishing an exchange in the Czech Republic and the impact of local politics on the initiative. Additionally, I discussed a variety of industry issues with the CRO and Head of Trading of CEZ, the Czech Utility and Trader, as well as with Vincent Kaminski – ex- head of trading at Enron and now a University Professor.

For me personally it was a very rewarding experience and one presentation that interested me a lot was by Elliott Piggott of TrayPort who discussed essentially how the single integrated Trayport platform had and continues to contribute to the development of the industry in Europe.

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